A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients

by: Knight, Richard Payne, 1750-1824; Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877

Publication date: 1865 [reprinted 1894]

Topics: Phallicism, Priapus -- Cult, Phallicism -- Europe, Sex -- Religious aspects, Phallicism -- Italy Isernia, Priapus, Cults -- Rome, Phallicism, Isernia (Italy) -- Religious life and customs

Publisher: London : [Privately Printed

Collection: Princeton; americana

Digitizing sponsor: MSN

Contributor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

Language: English

xvi, 254 p., 40 leaves of plates : 22 cm

Half title: Two essays on the worship of Priapus

"125 copies only, of which 6 on large paper."--H. S. Ashbee. Index librorum prohibitorum, 1877, p. 6

The 1st essay is reprinted with the other matter with which it was published in 1786 under title: An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... in two letters, one from Sir William Hamilton ... and the other from a person residing at Isernia; to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus ..

The 2d essay was written by Thomas Wright, assisted by J. E. Tennent and George Witt. Cf. Ashbee, p. 9. It is entitled: On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of werstern Europe

Addeddate: 2008-05-27 12:23:33

Associated-names: Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877. On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe. 1865

Call number: 257652

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Copyright-evidence: Evidence reported by Steven F Radzikowski for item discourseonworsh00knig on May 27, 2008: no visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1865.